The Most Reverend Dr. Robert Aboagye Mensah, Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church of Ghana, has bemoaned the increasing rate of social vices including drunkenness, prostitution, drugs, and child trafficking in country, saying that such practices have adversely affected national development.
He has therefore asked Evangelists to consider their call as a challenge and to intensify their evangelism to help transform society.
Most Reverend Aboagye Mensah was delivering a sermon to commission 10 Lay Evangelists of the Church at the Calvary Methodist Church at Amakom in Kumasi last Sunday.
The theme for the occasion was "Doing the Work of an Evangelist".
The commissioned Evangelists included Irene Catherine Osam-Tawiah, Daniel Kofi Amoquandoh, Nathaniel Okang, Dr. Francis K.E Nunoo, and Ernest Asare Kumi.
The rest are Paul Yaw Agbonu, Samuel Oduro Amaning, Elizabeth Adjei, John Fokuo, Albert Sackey and Margaret Daitey.
The Bishop noted that evangelists as men of God should be selfless, committed and dedicated to their mission to win more souls for Christ.
He advised them to have love and compassion for people especially the needy, and support them at all times.
The Most Reverend Aboagye Mensah said there were a lot of people looking for God in times of crisis and difficulty, and asked the Evangelists to guide them to accept Christ as their personal Saviour.
He noted that as their powers to deliver emanated from God, there was the need for them to give glory to God in the performance of their duties.
He admonished them to avoid the tendency of amassing wealth at the expense of the development of the church and the State. "As followers of God you should live exemplary lives worthy of emulation."